Journal of Textile Design Research and Practice

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

We are pleased to announce the first call for this new journal in the area of Textile Design, published by Bloomsbury/Berg. 

(http://www.bergpublishers.com/BergJournals/TheJournalofTextileDesignResearchPractice/tabid/16716/Default.aspx)

This is an open call but the deadline for inclusion in the first edition, due out in Autumn 2013 is Friday 22nd March 2013. 

The Journal of Textile Design Research and Practice (JTDRP) publishes peer-reviewed research in textile design and provides a forum to facilitate, stimulate and disseminate research in the domain of textile design and practice.  Encompassing a range of approaches, disciplines and outcomes, the JTDRP invites submissions from the following areas:
•	research through textile designing and making – work that uses practice as an integral part of the research process or as a means/method to directly answer a research question; experimental design research into materials and processes; or research in which the creation of artefacts embody the results of the research;
•	research informed by textiles – studies which are informed by textiles, textile design research methods and textile practice, and include fields in which textiles are applied, for example, product design, fashion and architecture; and
•	research for textile design education encompassing pedagogic studies into the development of textile designers, practitioners and researchers.
Within these areas the journal is interested in the following: interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary approaches and the role of collaboration; relationships between traditional and contemporary practices; the application of new and traditional technologies and materials from both technical and aesthetic perspectives; sustainable textile practices, interfaces between research and industry, the textile design process including the role of drawing and the significance of craft.

The Journal of Textile Design Research and Practice invites submissions in the following four categories:

1) Academic papers
Submissions in this format should address (a) the context of the research/design problem including any research questions, hypotheses or unique materials/processes; (b) how the research/practice has been developed; including the investigative methods used to answer the question and/or create new or novel insights; (c) the main findings, insights, implications or conclusions. Please send an abstract of 300-500 words to Faith Kane at [log in to unmask]  Following initial review by the editors, you may be invited to submit a full paper for peer review.

2) Practitioner Interviews
Submissions in this format should be positioned to provide insight into individual practitioners, their practice, techniques, studio innovations, perspectives on pedagogy and education in textiles, and so forth.  Please send an abstract of 300-500 words to J.R. Campbell at [log in to unmask] You may be invited to submit a full article for peer review.

3) Exhibition Reviews
Submissions to this category can address past, present or planned exhibitions.  We welcome reviews of industry-based exhibitions and trade fairs in addition to gallery based exhibitions. Please send an abstract of 300 – 500 words to Nancy-Boiter Powell at [log in to unmask], for consideration of an industry based exhibition or trade fair and to Faith Kane at [log in to unmask] for consideration for a gallery based exhibition review. 

4) Book Reviews
Please email Janette Matthews at [log in to unmask] if you would like to be considered as a book reviewer.